Re: Possible to record program execution

[Charles Manning]

On Saturday 16 October 2010 02:28:45 ppmoore wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to track down a strange bug that has all of us stumped.
>
> I set a breakpoint at a point in the code, and start the program.
> The breakpoint is reached and the program stops.
> When I try step over the breakpoint to the next line of code, GDB
> immediately indicates that the program executed normally, the intervening
> lines of code are not executed.

Have you considered using assembler instruction level stepping? 
>
> To track it down, I would like to do record lines of code executed.
> Something like the following:
> - set the breakpoint as mentioned above, and start the program
> - the breakpoint is reached
> - set a breakpoint at exit(), and then somehow record all lines of code
> executed up to the point where the program exits
> - when the exit() breakpoint is reached, examine the recorded trace of the
> program execution, line by line. AFAIK, the trace command can't do this.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Many thanks,
> Paul